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New Phishing / Scam Email

Please be on the look-out for the new Scam/Phishing email. These messages did not originate from us, as we never ask for this type of information via email. Please delete the message WITHOUT replying.

NOTE:
** If you have already replied to a message asking for your personal information, (username, password, etc.), please contact your local Customer Service Office as soon as possible to have your password changed. This will prevent any unauthorized access to your account.



Example of new Phishing/Scam Message:


From: "Admin@(Company).net"
Date: July 29, 2008 4:04:29 AM EDT
To:
Subject: Activate Your (Company).Net Account!
Reply-To:


Dear: Subscriber of (Company).Net,

             This is anti-spam alert WARNING message from (Company).Net, we are currently upgrading our database administrator and you we are requested to upgrade your email account for better service. Your current (Company).Net, email address will soon be moving to our new & improved email server powered. This will provide FREE SPAM filtering, FREE virus scanning, increased storage size, and many other features. YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WILL NOT CHANGE.

     This is a notice to inform you that we are having some temporal problem with our Java Script Administrator Mime-Version: 1.0 with access code error: https://login.(Company).net due to spam alert on the database verifications report for assistance of validations. Please note that all subscriber client will be restricted from access their mail account in a few days time from now, it will be suspended or cancelled due to access denied. The email account will be requesting to be activate to our new JavaScript Database before it will be cancel or suspended from our Member Services.
     This information is to avoid Spam Massages against the databases access and in view of this you are required to send down your email account information to our Mail Administrator Control Unit for immediate activation and Java Script maintenance of upgrade services of account user 

Kindly find below the information requested for the account upgrade:
========================================
1. First Name & Last Name:
2. Full Login Email Address:
3. Date of Birth:
4. Username & Password: 
5. Confirm your Current Password: 
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        Please take note this message is very important to us.  Like you, we are very concerned in stopping the proliferation of anti-spam, we have implemented Sender Address Verification (SAV) to ensure that we do not receive unwanted email and to give you the assurance that your messages to we have no chance of being filtered into a bulk mail folder. 

Take note of the following, if this above requested information is not completely send to our Mail Administrator Control Unit for upgrade and immediate activation of your account. You will be currently not allowed to access your email in a few days time from now and all respond should be send via email.

If you experience any problems or need assistance, please contact our Technical Support team at Our support hours [Monday – Friday 9am-9pm and Sat 10am-3pm]. 

We do apologize for the inconvenience this mind have case you for in this WARNING message 

Thank you for choosing (Company).Net,

(Company).Net Internet Services.
Support Team Inc. ©2008 All rights reserved.

July 29th, 2008
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